Sentences with phrase «contrary points of»

In short, those who want to find support for what they already think, and to insulate themselves from disturbing topics and contrary points of view...

People holding contrary points of view talk right past each other.

Maybe the topic revolved around a social problem or political candidate and you knew that your contrary point of view would be go over like a BLT at a bar mitzvah.

If you took a contrary point of view and refused to panic and sell half your stocks, you've probably made a lot of money.

Bringing in a fresh voice, perspective, or even contrary point of view, makes for a healthy blog.

Not exact matches

On the contrary, had Susan focused on selling her moccasins in retail stores, she would have likely had to invest in displays and point of sale (POS) combined with retailer promotions.

Like the P / E ratio and the dividend yield, the payout ratio is a snapshot of a specific point in time - contrary to profit growth covering a whole period.

Contrary to popular opinion, the drying of waterlogged devices can lead to further damage, Sanfilippo pointed out as part of a series of comprehensive strategies to prepare both in advance of Irma and after the hurricane passed over the state.

Contrary to Buffet's opinion, Bill Gates acknowledged the value of cryptocurrencies and shared it in one of his discussions with Reddit users in January 2015, saying: «Digital currencies can help the poor, but not Bitcoin» pointing at two important Bitcoin drawbacks, namely its volatility and anonymity.

Sugar - coat it all you like, AE, but the point is that Galileo was found «vehemently suspect of heresy», namely of having held the opinions that the Sun lies motionless at the centre of the universe, that the Earth is not at its centre and moves, and that one may hold and defend an opinion as probable after it has been declared contrary to Holy Scripture.

Quite the contrary, what is more general is lower on that scale of value, a point that Jews who affirm the divine election of Israel and Christians who affirm the Incarnation can readily understand.

ZEKE — this is only to you — taking a part of a sentence to prove a point contrary to the point of the sentence is a fun game, get better.

Instead of looking at the productions of the new media from the point of view of the older modes of production we must, on the contrary, analyze the products of the traditional «artistic» media from the standpoint of modern conditions of production.

On the contrary, it points to an organized progression in which all of the laws that govern the universe preexisted before its birth.

If you're doing something clearly contrary to the teachings of the Bible, he (or any other believer) can point it out to you and recommend you turn away from it.

Consequently one feels less inclined to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical point of planetary reflective consciousness which is the result of the forming of humanity into an organized society, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, corresponds on the contrary to our passage (by a movement of reversal or dematerialization) to another face of the universe: not an ending of the ultra-human but its arrival at something trans - human at the very heart of reality.

It is easy to see why that seems like the right tool: Free exercise jurisprudence has frequently involved the crafting of prudential exemptions and accommodations — precisely the carving out of spaces — that could allow religious believers to act on their convictions even in the face of contrary public sentiments or (up to a point) public laws.

The logic of it does not require or encourage disenchantment — to the contrary, its starting point is a moral and religious responsibility that we do not make for ourselves, but discover ourselves already under.

Contrary to the orthodox view that the Resurrection inevitably led to Christ's ascension to transcendent glory, Altizer's radical interpretation of the Resurrection sees it as just another point on the continuum of kenotic Incarnation: the dialectical movement from primordial, transcendent Spirit to radical immanence and flesh.

Quite the contrary, its purpose is to argue that the fundamental Thomist vision of finite existence as pointing to its self - sufficient cause is fully compatible with a doctrine of God that can embody the real strengths of the Thomist position without entailing its religiously and logically unsatisfactory conclusions.

To the contrary, whether they should be so engaged and, if so, how, has been a continuing point of disagreement among them.

Or again, when we speak in the creed of the Eternal Word of God as «coming down from heaven,» we surely do not think — or at least we ought not to think — that this is a precise statement of movement from an «up» to a «down»; we all know well enough that it is, on the contrary, a most inaccurate statement from that point of view.

The first part depicts the father as acting completely contrary to the expectations of the hearers; the second part brings their (from their point of view) legitimate protest to expression through the elder son.

Which means that it is not any sluggishness of the spirit that lies ahead of us, but on the contrary an eventual critical point of collective reflection.

I just can not agree with some of these points, and despite Thom Stark's claim to the contrary, I do think he reveals an antisupernaturalist bent in his approach to Scripture.

page 285 ^ Robert M. Price (an atheist who denies existence) agrees that this perspective runs against the views of the majority of scholars: Robert M. Price «Jesus at the Vanishing Point» in The Historical Jesus: Five Views edited by James K. Beilby & Paul Rhodes Eddy, 2009 InterVarsity, ISBN 028106329X page 61 [10] Michael Grant (a cla ssicist) states that «In recent years, «no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus» or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary.»

For knowledge we need justification (according to standard accounts), not just conviction — unless (contrary to the internal point of view of «immediate conviction») the justification is external.

Ethicists must look not only at the Israelite context but also at the moral values of the surrounding culture or cultures on any given moral point, for often the biblical position is taken in direct response to some contrary moral behavior.

His challenge to Whitehead has the more point since he sees Whitehead as also, and indeed more fundamentally, maintaining what Professor Buchler holds to be the contrary position — one which he himself advocates — that of «ontological parity.»

Whitehead held, on the other hand, that «the contrary opinion would seem more natural» from the point of view of his philosophy (PR 469).

yes, the point is you are confusing actions of so - called christians with the teachings of Jesus... «christians» have killed millions in the past but you will find Jesus» teachings are contrary to those actions

Americans have a MAJOR POINT that ISLAM AT ITS ROOT PREACHES INTOLERANCE which is CONTRARY to AMERICAN VALUES OF TOLERANCE, EQUALITY, & FREEDOM.

Some adherents to these religions will claim theirs is a «religion of peace,» though as often as not (if not more often), cases can be pointed out in the contrary.

On the contrary, from a creationist point of view, the very fact that the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.

I will come back to this point later, but here we only need affirm what St. Paul and St. John so strongly affirm, contrary to the Gnostic - Hellenic - Hindu tradition, and in the true spirit of the Hebrew Scriptures: that the whole creation — not just a few human souls — has been redeemed and reconciled in Christ.

He points out, for example, that while strict Whiteheadian thought does not allow for any «true end (finis) or beginning the biblical witness, on the contrary, is pervaded throughout its length and breadth with the concept of a movement of God's grace toward an end that is both teleos and finis» (111).

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

It turned out that the decision was not so much rooted in the Constitution as in the doctrine of precedent and» ironies begin to pile up at this point» in the Justices» perception that a contrary decision would undermine the Court's legitimacy by making it appear to be an institution influenced by politics.

He points out that only an event - like Fall can guarantee the goodness of God and authentic hope for salvation; otherwise God must have created our sinful condition, and salvation must be contrary to our created nature.

In fact, the question of truth is beside the point, for a publication need not be true to bring about public recognition; in some cases quite the contrary.

«Contrary to comments by GLSEN falsely labeling the Day of Truth as «inappropriate and divisive,» the event was always about the right of students to peacefully express their point of view on the subject of homosexual behavior,» the statement said.

It is true that there are some other points where differences remain, contrary to the claims of the Joint Declaration.

Or do we say that one perspective views the matter from the point of view of Gods sovereignty (where everything that happens, including Satans activity is ultimately from God, in that he permits it) and the other from the point of view of Gods Love (from which evil is contrary to his will).

On the contrary, his perception of both God and the world was so utterly harmonious that he was able to describe each from a vantage point which can not be surpassed.

again, that only strengthens my point: the core teaching of the Bible is virtually unanimously affirmed by over 2 billion — a practical fact directly contrary to your argument.

In point of fact, no evidence whatsoever is offered to prove that this couple was maritally successful in any way; actually a great deal of evidence exists to the contrary.

Belief in the creation of the world in time, contrary to Artistotle's belief in an eternal universe, led Buridan to the concept of inertia, which isbasic to the understanding of local motion, itself the starting point of physics and hence of all modern science.

But although atheists might argue that a «disbelief in the immateriality or immortality of the soul» would not «make a person less caring, less moral, less committed to the well - being of everybody on Earth,» A. F. Christian is quick to point out the evidence to the contrary.

In 1837, the first editor of Washington's Collected Works wrote: «If a man who spoke, wrote, and acted as a Christian through a long life, who gave numerous proofs of his believing himself to be such, and who was never known to say, write, or do a thing contrary to his professions, if such a man is not to be ranked among the believers of Christianity, it would be impossible to establish the point by any train of reasoning.»

2) much to the contrary of your point, Gen. 2 makes it clear that humanity is responsible to faithfully tend the garden (creation) that God made.